All articles by Patrick Frater – Page 36
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Fortissimo lines up double Dutch treat
Netherlands-Hong Kong-based sales outfit, Fortissimo Film Sales has struck an output deal with Benelux distributor A-Films and picked up a new Dutch picture which it expects to sell worldwide.The first Fortissimo titles acquired by San Fu Maltha and Pim Hermeling's A-Film Distribution/Fu Works under the new output deal are Wong ...
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Four Nordic sales companies form Viking Export
Four Nordic film sales companies have joined together to create an informal lobbying group, Viking Export.Members include Svensk Filmindustri (SF) and NonStop Film Sales from Sweden and Nordisk International and Trust Film Sales from Denmark. Ann-Kristin Westerberg of SF has been asked to chair the group.Viking's agenda is to improve ...
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Intermedia takes world sales rights on Suriyothai
Los Angeles-based sales house Intermedia has picked up world sales rights on Suriyothai, the historical epic, which is the largest film ever to come out of Thailand.Directed by Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol and originally presented in a three hour version at the Pusan festival in November 2001, the film was subsequently ...
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Divided Asia may hold key to MIFED future
Although London's pre-MIFED Screenings was undone by the power of a handful of US sellers, dislodging MIFED could depend on persuading one group which has traditionally found the Milan event a hit, Asian buyers and sellers.However, there appears to be no consensus among the Asians who were at MIFED ...
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Hard sell, soft money
For many market players MIFED this year has been as much about putting together next year's films through international financing partnerships as it has been about selling the ones on their current slates.Former Das Werk boss Stefan Jonas was in town with his new company Playground. Nothing very striking in ...
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Mirovision brims with top Asian talents
Korea's Mirovision is enjoying a renaissance as an internationally-minded sales and production group, having spent much of the last year focussing on building its local distribution activities and its first theatre.After last year backing Cannes Directors' Fortnight film Cry Woman, which was the first Korean-Chinese-French co-production, international production is again ...
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Europa acquires Chen Kaige's Together
Europa Corp, the mini-studio headed by Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, has become the latest distributor to acquire Chen Kaige's father and son drama Together. The film was one of the biggest hits of the Toronto film festival and was picked up there for North America by United Artists ...
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Celestial signs huge video deals across Asia
Celestial Pictures, the Hong Kong upstart which owns the Shaw Bros library of Chinese classic movies, has put in place a raft of key distribution partnerships across Asia. The move represents the group's first substantial revenues streams after the start-up phase and enable it to boost the catalogue's visibility ahead ...
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Chan balloon adventure makes Malaysian pitstop
Leading Malaysian exhibitor-distributor Golden Screen Cinemas has pre-bought Summit Entertainment's Around The World In 80 Days.The action adventure based on the Jules Verne classic tale is directed by Frank Coraci, but importantly stars Jackie Chan, who continues to be a huge draw in the territory. The film is currently in ...
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Atlas' Red Phone rings up international sales
The Red Phone, handled by Germany's Atlas International, has already garnered sales to Nippon Herald for Japan, Lusomundo for Portugal and Showal for Israel. The $12.5m two-part, spy action vehicle boasts a theatrical-level cast including Arnold Vosloo, Ben Cross, Michael Ironside and Michael Wincott and a particularly contemporary theme.Written ...
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I-Dream takes a slice of Bollywood Hollywood
I-Dream Productions has picked up a slice of the US rights to Deepha Mehta's Indo-Canadian comedy Bollywood-Hollywood from Fortissimo Films Sales. The unique deal limits I-Dream's area of operation to specialist Indian cinemas, video outlets and TV channels. Fortissimo is days away from striking a second all-media US deal with ...
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Killer pitches Camp at Fortissimo
Fortissimo Film Sales has extended its relationship with Killer Films by picking up sales rights to musical comedy Camp.Camp follows the trials and tribulations of a group of young performers practising for their public debut under the summer camp tutelage of a burnt-out Broadway songwriter. Currently in post-production ...
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Korean titles are champion sellers for Cineclick
Cineclick Asia has had an electric start to MIFED inking several prominent deals on its slate of top Korean pictures in the first days of the market.Korean Oscar contender Oasis was sold to Cinequanon of Japan for a mid six-figures dollar sum. The Lee Chang-dong-directed film about the unusual relationship ...
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Schoendorffer shoots Spybound for TF1
Irreversible pair and real life couple Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel are to star in Spy Bound (Agents Secrets), a big-budget thriller to be directed by Frederic Schoendorffer.The Euros15m French-language film is produced by Doberman-producer Eric Neve through his company La Chauve Souris and makes its market splash as the ...
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European distributors form six way buying alliance
Six European distributors have teamed up to form a buying alliance, that is the re-working of a similar deal announced this time last year. The companies involved include pure distributors Switzerland's Frenetic, Spain's Alta Films and Cinelibre-Cineart and producer-distributors Haut Et Court from France, Fu Works-A-Films from The Netherlands and ...
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European distributors form six way buying alliance
Six European distributors have teamed up to form a buying alliance, that is the re-working of a similar deal announced this time last year. The companies involved include pure distributors Switzerland's Frenetic, Spain's Alta Films and Cinelibre-Cineart and producer-distributors Haut Et Court from France, Fu Works-A-Films from The Netherlands and ...
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Kim Ki-duk title springs to Bavaria
Sales outfit Bavaria Film International has a growing number of reasons to be positive as it expands its slate of non-German titles.It kicked off MIFED with two strong sessions at Saturday's Milan Screenings, where it showed Peter Bay's Swedish comedy The Man Who Couldn't Say No and Boran, the debut ...
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Dutch tax credit system grinds to bureaucratic halt
Bureaucracy may have killed off The Netherlands' attractions for foreign producers and potential film investors alike.The famously lucrative tax credit system which allowed production investors to shelter their income and avoid capital taxes was put on temporary hold this July when the tax authorities decided to review the system yet ...
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BV Int'l has busy start with Minotaur and Thunderstruck
Norwegian sales outfit BV International has had a busy start to the market and even struck one deal while it was unpacking its boxes on Saturday.It sold Minotaur, its Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Derek Jacobi teen horror, to New World for Thailand. On the eve of the market it also sold ...
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BV Int'l has busy start with Minotaur and Thunderstruck
Norwegian sales outfit BV International has had a busy start to the market and even struck one deal while it was unpacking its boxes on Saturday.It sold Minotaur, its Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Derek Jacobi teen horror, to New World for Thailand. On the eve of the market it also sold ...